My startup is also working on alternative to Jira for anyone interested: https://kitemaker.co
It's really fast and tons of hotkeys and keyboard navigation. No need to use the mouse at all if you don't want to.
It's really fast and tons of hotkeys and keyboard navigation. No need to use the mouse at all if you don't want to.
In terms of differentiating features from Trello:
- we have more structure. We have themes (like Jira epics) and a roadmap view for giving a big picture overview of what's going on. Also software development specific features like effort and impact estimation (small, medium and large aka t-shirt sizes)
- the aforementioned hotkeys and key nav. We love using Superhuman for email and we put a lot of love into making the product keyboard friendly
- our issues are richer than Trello cards. Our document editor feels a lot like Notion documents. We also have threaded comments
- our integrations are getting better all the time. You can mention issues from GitHub and see the commit messages in Kitemaker, you can set up automation rules to automatically move issues in the board. You can embed Figma designs and we're about to launch a Slack integration. And more integrations in the pipeline
It's still a young product, but we're adding features every week and onboarding more and more teams. If people are using Trello or GitHub issues, they can use our importer and try it out quickly with their own data. We'd love to hear any feedback you might have.
Also, what’s the pricing model? And how do I get my data back out?
No way to get data out yet (besides asking nicely) but it’s coming. Developer API very soon as well as exporters for every system we have importers for
There will always be a free tier (mostly likely for 6 users). Then it’ll be something like $10 per user per month which we think is pretty standard in this segment